"Stem" is a song by

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from his 1996 debut studio album, '' Endtroducing.....''. The song reached number 9 on the

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, DJ Shadow's only top 10 hit to date. The album version of the song combines "Stem" with "Long Stem".

Samples used

Like all other tracks on the album, "Stem"/"Long Stem" makes heavy use of sampling. Below are among the samples used for the track: *The first

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used in the track is sampled from the beginning of the 1969 song "Love Suite" by English rock band

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. *The "...uicide...uicide..." vocal sample is taken from "Moshitup" by American hip-hop artist

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featuring fellow American hip-hop artist

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. *The high-pitched string samples are sampled from "Variazione III" by Italian

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. *The recurring guitar and violin parts are sampled from "Linde Manor" by American singer-songwriter

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. *The organ sample that starts "Long Stem" is taken from "Tears" by Italian musician

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; the same sample is used on another track on ''Endtroducing....'', "Organ Donor". *The "I could just lay right down..." vocal sample is taken from "Blues So Bad" by American funk/soul group The Mystic Number National Bank. *The "parking tickets" monologue which appears midway in the song is sampled from "Freedom" by American comedian Murray Roman. *The synths that appear in the "Long Stem" section of the song are sampled from "Oleo Strut" by American electronic group Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company.

CD Track listing

#"Stem" – 3:24 #"Long Stem" – 4:26 #"Red Bus Needs to Leave!" – 2:41 #"Soup" – 0:43

7" Track listing

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' (1995).

In popular culture

It has been featured in several films and on television, including: * The 1997 film, ''

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''. * The 1997 film, ''

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''. * The 1999 film, ''

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'', originally broadcast in the UK as part of the

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